Re: [core] Informative refs in core-coap: groupcomm / http-mapping ?

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On Apr 9, 2013, at 12:12, "Dijk, Esko" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>  
> I was just looking at the informative references section of core-coap. Ideas for improving these references:
>  
> 1)
> We could replace reference to  [I-D.bormann-core-cross-reverse-convention] with [draft-castellani-core-http-mapping], where we plan to add a default URI convention for a reverse proxy in the next version, similar to the current content of [I-D.bormann-core-cross-reverse-convention].

Oh.  This is so obvious that I just made that change in the SVN right away [1275].
(This hasn't been done before because I was expecting a future version of http-mapping to have a "replaces" relationship to the cross-reverse-convention draft -- that hasn't happened yet, but it is sure the intention, and we should make this intention visible now.)

> 2)
> We could add a reference to [draft-ietf-core-groupcomm] to point to additional guiding text on these two aspects:
> ·         Multicast Request Acceptance and Response Suppression (section 3.6). This provides details to the core-coap rule that a “server MAY always pretend it did not receive the request”
> ·         A new section will be added for the next groupcomm version about Proxying of multicast requests; related to core-coap section 8.2.2. It explains in more detail the problems when doing this and a solution as well.

I would think that referencing groupcomm is a good idea.  I'm not quite sure where and how, so let's discuss this:

I'd probably add a sentence of the form 

   A more general discussion of group communication with CoAP is in [I-D.ietf-core-groupcomm].

at the end of the first paragraph of section 8.

I'd also insert a reference to groupcomm before the reference to coap-misc in 8.2.2, like this:

   Proxying multicast requests is discussed in more detail in [I-D.ietf-core-groupcomm]; a
   proposal to address the base URI issue can be found in section 3 of
   [I-D.bormann-coap-misc].

Grüße, Carsten